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History, Mission, and Covenant

Ward Hill Church of Christ the King

A Christ-Centered Community

of Faith, Hope and Love

Our History – Until the late 1800’s, the Ward Hill community had always been a rural and sparsely settled part of Bradford. That all changed, however, with the construction of Williams Knipe’s shoe factory (now Joseph’s Restaurant). Ward Hill soon become a village of its own, and Mr. Knipe and other members of the historic First Church of Christ, Bradford, believed a new Congregational parish was needed. In 1892, Mr. Knipe financed the building of the Ward Hill meetinghouse and parsonage. After a year as a Sunday School outpost of the Bradford church, a new congregation formed The Ward Hill Church of Christ in 1893. The church has been known as Ward Hill Church of Christ the King since 2001.

Our Mission – Ward Hill Church of Christ the King exists to love and serve God, love and serve people, and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. - 1 John 4:7-11

Our Covenant - I. Having been led by the Holy Spirit to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and to confess him as Lord, and having been baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, we do hereby, in the presence of God and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully covenant with one another, as one body of Christ, to lead a life worthy of the Lord and fully pleasing to Him.

II. We promise that we will watch over and counsel one another in the spirit of brotherly love; that we will remember one another in our prayers and aid each other in sickness and distress; and that we will cooperate in the total mission of winning others to Jesus Christ.

III. We further agree by the aid of the Holy Spirit to strive for the advancement and purity of this church; to support and promote its work, spiritually and materially; to attend its worship services and unite in its ordinances, always giving it a sacred priority over all institutions of human origin.

IV. We will endeavor to live exemplary Christian lives to study and grow in the knowledge and practice of our faith, and to promote the Christian education of our children in the home and in the fellowship of this church. We also agree that when we move from this place, we will as soon as possible unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of the Word of God.Ward Hill Church is an interdenominational Christian community that is biblical, liturgical and evangelical in that we affirm Scriptural authority, God-centered worship and the gospel of Jesus Christ.